Provide case management and supervision to young person, and implement warning process when required.

Team leader / team manager

Provide consultation and supervision to case manager.

Consult on dispute resolution where required, and in consultation with the Youth Justice Senior Practice Advisor.

Assistant Director / Manager Individual and Family Support

Provide oversight, direction and monitoring of the area youth justice program.

Approve attendance at MAPPS camp by signing the 'Approval form: Activities organised and conducted by an external agency' contained in the Guidelines for implementing sporting, recreation and outdoor activities.

Youth Justice Senior Practice Advisor

Provide case consultation particularly in relation to high-risk young people. This should occur subject to local area agreements between Assistant Director / Manager Individual and Family Support.

Risk assessment report and treatment plan

A risk assessment report is also submitted to the Youth Parole / Residential Board where requested.

Group program

Basic group concentrates on assisting young people to change the way they think and talk about sexual offending.

The primary goal of basic group is for young people to understand how they came to offend and to take responsibility for their offending.

Advanced group focuses on the future, developing healthy relationships and preventing future offending.

It assists young people to develop a belief system conducive to a non-offending life.

Transitions (camp) program

The transitions program provides a short, intense, therapeutic experience, conducted at a wilderness camp (generally scheduled from Thursday to Saturday).

The transitions program marks a shift in the young person's understanding of their offence and their treatment, and of their commitment to the treatment process.

The focus of treatment is on the prevention of relapse into offending.

Camp concludes with a family session, where young people and their family members attend a session immediately after the camp to reflect on the young person's experience and engage families in their treatment.

As per the youth justice Guidelines for implementing sporting, recreation and outdoor activities, it is the responsibility of MAPPS to obtain written consent from the young person or their parent/guardian (where required).

Approval to attend the camp is to be provided by the Assistant Director / Manager Individual and Family Support using the 'Approval form: Activities organised and conducted by an external agency' contained in theGuidelines for implementing sporting, recreation and outdoor activities.

Individual sessions

On occasion, a young person may be assessed as not suitable for group interventions.

The young person may have a disability or other behavioural issues that MAPPS staff believe will be better managed by regular individual treatment sessions.

Individual sessions will include family work as appropriate.

Some young people may engage in individual treatment and family work sessions in addition to the group work.

Individual sessions will be delivered at the MAPPS office in Parkville.

Length of treatment

The length of treatment for each young person will vary between 6–18 months, according to need as well as the young person's attendance and compliance with their youth justice order.

The average length of treatment is 12 months.

Young people also have the option of continuing voluntarily with the program following expiry of their youth justice order if there is an identified need to do so.

MAPPS will work with the young person to engage them in alternative longer-term support as required.

Secondary consultation

MAPPS provides assistance and consultation to youth justice staff to improve their capacity and confidence to understand and respond appropriately to the needs of young people who commit sexual offences.

Rural service provision

Young people who require treatment but live too far from metropolitan Melbourne to attend the YHARS office may be referred by MAPPS to private practitioners, in consultation with Youth Justice.

Funds are available to rural youth justice teams to purchase services on a case-by-case, sessional basis, in consultation with a team leader or supervisor.

Dispute resolution

Attempts to resolve issues relating to the service provision for a young person should, in the first instance, occur between the relevant youth justice case manager (the unit coordinator for young people in custody) and the MAPPS clinician.

If an issue cannot be resolved, it should be referred through the relevant line manager, in consultation with the youth justice senior practice advisor where appropriate.

Progress reports

MAPPS will provide the youth justice case manager with written progress reports every three months throughout a young person's treatment.

These progress reports are to inform youth justice case planning.

MAPPS will provide the Youth Parole Board with progress reports upon request.

Managing non-attendance

MAPPS will notify the allocated youth justice caseworker within 24 hours of a young person failing to attend a scheduled appointment or refusing to participate in treatment.

It is the role of youth justice to support the young person's attendance at MAPPS.

If a young person fails to comply with the requirements of their order, or displays behaviours that cause serious concern, the warning process should be considered in consultation with the team leader.

Completion of treatment

Following completion of treatment, a closure report is provided to the relevant youth justice case manager within two days of closure.